That's confused me. No cross stepping or any stylish longboard moves. Doing turns that even I could manage on a short board.FFS, the front 4 ft of his board seem to be superflous (sp?). why dosn't he just cut it off and get a short(ish0 board ?

Just re-watched clip without the benefit (sic) of far too much alcohol and realised my comment above was basically bollocks.

What I was trying to say was that I can't really see the point of doing "shortboard" type manoevres on a longboard. Surely, if the guy can throw a longboard around like that then he could really shred on a shortboard - so, why not ride a shortboard instead of making things more difficult than necessary.

I missed the nose work on first view - Beer Goggles must have been steamed up.

Great surfing in the light of day. (but still not enough footwork for my liking )

Finally,

Doing turns that even I could manage on a short board.

should have read.

Doing turns that even I could manage, occasionally, on a good day, and even then only one per wave, and only on one wave per session, on a short board.

What I was trying to say was that I can't really see the point of doing "shortboard" type manoevres on a longboard. Surely, if the guy can throw a longboard around like that then he could really shred on a shortboard - so, why not ride a shortboard instead of making things more difficult than necessary.

I missed the nose work on first view - Beer Goggles must have been steamed up.

Great surfing in the light of day. (but still not enough footwork for my liking )

Finally,

Doing turns that even I could manage on a short board.

should have read.

Doing turns that even I could manage, occasionally, on a good day, and even then only one per wave, and only on one wave per session, on a short board.

I'll get my coat........

I know what you mean but being able to shred short board style, and nose ride/ x step/ drop knee turn all on one board surly makes a more versatile style (not taking away form short boarding or trying to start some daft long verses short argument).

That's the way modern long boarding is going and I think it is progression, the same as short boarders are turning to skate style maneuvers and more air time it's all about pushing the boundaries.

wonder how many more of those there are scattered around the world...1000s i would say

the first time i saw that wave i creamed my pants.....some cunt's gone and given the co-oords out though, so it's only a matter of time before there's a surf camp there.....it's a rivermouth, so no nasty coral=super fun try anything session, would love to surf it, but the phillipines are a little hit an miss for me to spend my $ on